Synchronization of Kuramoto Oscillators via Cutset Projections

DOI10.1109/TAC.2018.2876786zbMATH Open1482.34105arXiv1711.03711OpenAlexW2963745679WikidataQ128945346 ScholiaQ128945346MaRDI QIDQ5223794FDOQ5223794

Authors: Saber Jafarpour, Francesco Bullo 

Publication date: 18 July 2019

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Synchronization in coupled oscillators networks is a remarkable phenomenon of relevance in numerous fields. For Kuramoto oscillators the loss of synchronization is determined by a trade-off between coupling strength and oscillator heterogeneity. Despite extensive prior work, the existing sufficient conditions for synchronization are either very conservative or heuristic and approximate. Using a novel cutset projection operator, we propose a new family of sufficient synchronization conditions; these conditions rigorously identify the correct functional form of the trade-off between coupling strength and oscillator heterogeneity. To overcome the need to solve a nonconvex optimization problem, we then provide two explicit bounding methods, thereby obtaining (i) the best-known sufficient condition for unweighted graphs based on the 2-norm, and (ii) the first-known generally-applicable sufficient condition based on the $infty$-norm. We conclude with a comparative study of our novel $infty$-norm condition for specific topologies and IEEE test cases; for most IEEE test cases our new sufficient condition is one to two orders of magnitude more accurate than previous rigorous tests.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03711

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Synchronization of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D06) Stability of manifolds of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D35)

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